Alieu,
Greetings from
Wagadou Gaana Remme (you laugh!)
>From: Alieu Badara Sowe <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
><[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Response to Fatou Taal
>Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 13:28:28 GMT
>
>Fatou Taal
>
>I read with interest your correspondence with Ebrima Ceesay, on Gambia-L,
>and I am compelled to put the records straight for the sake of my
>integrity,
>which I jealously guard from the date I became a journalist. I worked very
>hard, suffered all kinds of treatment in the defence of press freedom at
>the
>time Gambians needed their journalists most (1994 to date). So I will not
>idly sit down and watch a worthless girl like you to tamper with that
>integrity.
>Let me start by making it categorically clear to you that I wrote your
>dad's
>story in the public interest and without malice. Like Ebrima Cessay
>rightly
>put it to you, let me also say it that I last spoke to Ceesay in 1996 and
>he
>has nothing whatsoever to do with your dad's story. Ebrima has not
>telephoned or written a single letter to me since he left The Gambia.
>However, what I cannot even understand is, why do you have to embark on a
>fruitless venture of trying to establish who my source is, when as you
>intimate, the story was untrue!
>After I published your dad's story, the Daily Observer took it upon itself
>to come up with a reaction that tends to imply that my story was totally
>fake. Your dad, and of course some APRC big wigs capitalised on a simple
>factual error to publish what the Observer printed as a correction. Note
>that I am not a party to the Observer's so called apology to your father.
>I
>would have gone for a clarification.
>Yes, it maybe correct that your dad had not even travelled to the U.K. I
>did
>make several efforts to talk to your dad prior to publication but to no
>avail. Nonetheless, what is very clear is that the substance of the story
>was true. If your dad is arguing that his appointment was not rejected by
>the British authorities on the grounds that he (your dad) is an ex-convict,
>can he then tell us why he didn't leave for the U.K. since his appointment
>early this year (it is almost six months since his appointment)!
>The bottom line is, whether for corruption, embezzlement or stealing, your
>dad has a record of criminal conviction and this is public knowledge.
>Peace.
>
>Alieu Badara Sowe
>________________________________________________________________________
>Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L
>Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------------------
________________________________________________________________________
Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L
Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
